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- English Word Dinner Definition An entertainment; a feast.
- English Word Dinnerless Definition Having no dinner.
- English Word Dinnerly Definition Of or pertaining to dinner.
- English Word Dinning Definition of Din
- English Word Dinoceras Definition A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Dinornis Definition A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
- English Word Dinosaur Definition Alt. of Dinosaurian
- English Word Dinosauria Definition An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
- English Word Dinosaurian Definition One of the Dinosauria.
- English Word Dinothere Definition Alt. of Dinotherium
- English Word Dinotherium Definition A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
- English Word Dinoxide Definition Same as Dioxide.
- English Word Dinsome Definition Full of din.
- English Word Dint Definition A blow; a stroke.
- English Word Dint Definition The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
- English Word Dint Definition Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
- English Word Dint Definition To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
- English Word Dinted Definition of Dint
- English Word Dinting Definition of Dint
- English Word Dinumeration Definition Enumeration.
- English Word Diocesan Definition Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
- English Word Diocesan Definition A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
- English Word Diocesan Definition The clergy or the people of a diocese.
- English Word Diocese Definition The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
- English Word Diocesener Definition One who belongs to a diocese.
- English Word Dioceses Definition of Diocese
- English Word Diodon Definition A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
- English Word Diodon Definition A genus of whales.
- English Word Diodont Definition Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
- English Word Diodont Definition A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.